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COMPANY NEWS; CHRYSLER TO END PRODUCTION OF JEEP COMANCHE

Published: June 6, 1992

The Chrysler Corporation said it would end production of its slow-selling Jeep Comanche pickup truck at its Toledo, Ohio, plant next week after eight model years of production. Chrysler, which acquired the American Motors Corporation and its Jeep operations in 1987, had been building about 12 Comanches a day. The Toledo plant now makes about 720 Cherokee sport-utility vehicles a day.

The Comanche is a pickup truck version of the Cherokee. A company spokesman said that although the Comanche is scheduled to officially go out of production on June 12, the auto maker may have already built the last one. But plant officials were not immediately available to confirm the report.